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Timothy Tangherlini

2 accepted papers

2023

My side, your side and the evidence: Discovering aligned actor groups and the narratives they weave

ACL 2023long

News reports about emerging issues often include several conflicting story lines. Individual stories can be conceptualized as samples from an underlying mixture of competing narratives. The automated identification of these distinct narratives from unstructured text is a fundamental yet difficult ta…

2022

Which side are you on? Insider-Outsider classification in conspiracy-theoretic social media

ACL 2022long

Social media is a breeding ground for threat narratives and related conspiracy theories. In these, an outside group threatens the integrity of an inside group, leading to the emergence of sharply defined group identities: Insiders – agents with whom the authors identify and Outsiders – agents who th…